Test passed

As Com-Star / Solaris - Syndicate retracted their war against the Negotium, I am proud of one fact: No single loss within Negotium Alliance and EVE-Union !

I did expect there would be one or two losses among pilots within the Negotium Alliance. The usual far away missionrunner or that usual deaf-blind-mute-analphabetic member who does afk transports with his industrial or what ever stupid things to do in wartimes would ever be. I am very proud of those corporations and their staff who managed to keep discipline among their members.

Nevertheless we have to admit there were losses among Pilots of German Constructors.
That Corporation was just not yet ready for war and they immediately left the Negotium Alliance when the war started, just to rejoin today after its end.
All those losses did happen, because some members didn't obey recommendations by their leadership and I expect them to have learned their lesson.
(Those pilots had the usual excuses like: I didn't expect them to pursue us, because we were not their main wartargets)
I told them, Com-Star would go for every single kill possible and they did.

Now, one would think we had given docking orders to our members. No ! We didn't !
Standing order within the Passion of War was: Don't do anything stupid !
We had scouts checking out all areas. We thought about catching some of them by using routes through WH-space. But in the end, we didn't have the numbers to attack them, so we didn't.

We do not know who did pay them, as they are mercenaries for hire.
There is one strong hint:
17:21:00 -500'000'000.00 Corporation Account Withdrawal 3'661'375'196.01 War Academy Lee Corbain
That sum is what mercenaries usually demand as first half of payment for a contract.

I have made one decision: No matter whether that bunch of idiots at the "War Academy" did pay Com-Star or not, we will leave them alone. I just don't want to deal with them anymore and I don't want to deliver them any excuse why they fucked up their own business.

My job is to keep the Negotium alive and while the Negotium Alliance is very healthy, the Passion of War is at a very critical point now.
Some important members are offline because of real life issues and those remaining do show high presence, but we just ain't enough now. We do have several capital pilots, but we don't have the capitals yet (Note: Wardec on VGmbH imminent if they don't deliver my Moros soon). Not only do we need some more ISK to buy us Capitals, but we need a purpose for them as we don't buy ships to collect dust.
Most of the players in the Passion of War are highly skilled and they have made enough kills in their life, so most of my members would be highly welcomed by any PvP Corporation.
My partner corporaton "Final Solutions" has lost all their personnel to Endstati0n/Ev0ke. We do miss these guys. But that offer was so good, I did consider it for myself a few days, but then I saw the loyality of my own members and I just could not drop the Negotium. One year it exists now and that year was very tough. Intrigues and take-over attempts by the war academy. They did anything to keep members away from joining the Passion of War, they did anything to badmouth us behind our backs. What could have been a dream they greatly fucked up until my power was just strong enough to sack them (they did leave shortly before I would have sacked them).

Now we are considering offers for some lucrative 0.0 space for us, but we will only consider offers where the Negotium is taken as a package, which means all of us or none.

Meanwhile we will reorganize ourselves, do some heavy trainings with negotium alliance pilots and earn some ISK.

Humpfgrunz

The Test

As the main purpose of the Negotium is war, we have arrived at our first examination.
Our former enemies all had their own strength, but in the end the were no match for us. Now finally someone paid Com-Star / Solaris - Syndicate for leading a war against us. As I remember many of them personally, I see the current situation as a sportive competition against old friends. Nevertheless we have taken all necessary preparations and we have organized our stuff.

We have removed most of our POSes and all valuable stuff within them.
Those remaining will serve as bait and are written off within our books. Our friends are on alert to help us defending them, if needed.

Whoever spent the money for Com-Star, I should be grateful, since we all will have some fun. We can withstand a long period of war, but I heavily doubt whether those paying Com-Star will be able to afford it.

Com-Star is the best german speaking Mercenary Corporation, so I feel quite honoured when someone considers them as the one and only option to act against us.

I will still remember many of those guys from the times I used to fly along with them when I was with GIS. So MiGE, McNoTo, Ullrich Rudel, ... when the war is over and your customer has burnt his ISK, I'll invite you into our TS for some chat.

By then let us have some fun.

Greetings !

Humpfgrunz / Ze Beeblebrox